Indira Jaisingh: A Heart That Honours

Tireless Defender of Women’s Rights, Human Rights and environment issues; Additional Solicitor General of India; First Woman Senior Advocate of Mumbai High Court; Director,Lawyer’s Collective, Women’s Rights Initiative, which drafted and actively lobbied to get the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005; Recipient,Padmashri; Fellow,Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,London; Author of many books on Law,human rights and women’s issues.

This is for every woman
who knows the difference between justice and revenge,
who knows that justice begins at home
who chooses non-violence over violence
who re-invents herself
and becomes a role model for others.